Singing Quotes

True singing is a different breath, about nothing.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently

Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.

There are a few activities which are immensely valuable: laughter is one of these activities. Singing, dancing, are also of the same quality, but laughter is the quickest.

I don't - I don't like that style, myself. I never did like Elvis's singing, but there was millions that did.

I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.

You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

I'm singing. I'm a singer!

Make sure that your song is fun and catchy. Make sure that you enjoy singing, and drink tea.

My songwriting and overall approach to music go beyond just good singing and strong musicality - I want people, now more so than ever, to feel something and be moved somehow by the content I create.

And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land.

Dean Martin's pancreas, who overheard his liver singing I got a right to sing the blues. Never got a dinner!

No one can sing like June Carter so I just tried to sing my very best.

Once I started singing, I realized it was a language I'd forgotten I could speak.

I often compare singing to lovemaking because there's so many similarities.

I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.

I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

I've never stopped working on songs and practising singing and guitar.

I am singing now while Rome burns.

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even harder to combine the two.

I have always really liked Tom Jones and I can't wait to see him in action. One thing is for sure, I would rather be singing for a living than getting punched on the head.

I always wanted to sing. I didn't know how to do it. I didn't know how to make the singing thing happen.

Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.

There was something in the bel canto, not just opera, but a certain style of Italian singing that I responded to deeply.

I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.

It didn't feel organic and [Tito] Gobbi was one of the artists that was able to, along with Maria Callas, incorporate not just the sound, but the emotion, the technique of the singing.

Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

Our vocal harmonies started to feel like a cop-out: all group-singing, all the time.

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.

I've made solo records and that's all been a learning experience. I've just got better at singing and more comfortable with who I am and my voice.

I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.

Singing your own songs live is so personal, it's like standing there reading out your diary pages. I still get really nervous so I would have to say performing is the greater rush for me.

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.

I'm not singing the virtues of corporations simply 'cause they exist. But by the same token I'm not gonna be like your average liberal and condemn them just because they exist.

Who is Alice?" asked mother. "Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday. So I am singing Happy Thursday to her." - Frances the badger

Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there.

Singing is a lover's thing.

Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves." (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472).

I'm not really a folk singer, but I love the music and there's certain lines that will get just stuck in my head, and they seem to be stuck there for a reason, and I start singing them.

I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.

I grew up singing professionally since I was 7 years old and so to get to play a character who's living out their Rock star dreams as JEM was pretty much epic.